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Show OLD; MAN DECLARES BE iWAfeSHANGHAIED BY ' V : BRITISH SEA CAPTAIN NEW YORK, Sept Jlv-John Powell. W years old, ' who ays he was shanghaied, shang-haied, will appear before Vice-Consul Smlthers today to' press charges against Capt Munro of the British ship Canada. Can-ada. ' ' , .-: j. V", ' . , Powell swore oat affidavits yesterday. The alleged capture of the old man took place at Oulfport, Miss. He escaped at Rio de Janeiro and followed the Canada, Can-ada, to New Tor It. Yesterday the Canada Can-ada tpajd oft hare, and Powell found the Captain in the office of the British consulate.' : . , Powell described himself last night as a laborer engaged in handling lumber, his home address being in; Mobile.; Ala. He was employed afcGulfport wheathe Canada took on - ..cargo of lumber there for Rio de Janeiro. She l"ned several new hands, . but she was still four men short of her full crew, it is said, the proper number berng twenty-three twenty-three men. From the streets of .Oulfport, .Oulf-port, about 9 o'clock In the evening, he declares he was shanghaied. "Twisters" "Twis-ters" were put on his right hand, he said, and he was placed aboard & tug where he says he met -Capt. Munro,. to whom he protested. However, he was carried to the Canada, which sailed within thirty minutes. : - - Until the ship reached Rio de Janeiro Ja-neiro the old man had to do. his share of the work in. wind and 'Storm. The work came hard on h,lm and he determined deter-mined when be reached Rio de Janeiro to fight for his release. When ,the ship made port, the Captain went ashore to the Consul. Powell followed. He declares de-clares he gof no satisfaction from the British Consul, nor did he get any money from the Captain. The old man had to beg for food. He hung around the docks looking for a ship to take him to New Tork, whither the Canada, was bound. He found one in the bark Egerla. Rough weather favored fa-vored the old man's cause, for It badly hampered the Canada, and almost on the heels of each other the two vessels arrived in Nw York. Lawyer Abbott examined the articles of the Canada yesterday at the British I consulate. He says Powell's name does not appear on. the list of the crew, as It ' would had he signed. At i he hearing today Capt. Munro will have a chance to explain Powell's presence on bis shfp He declares the old man was not' shanghaied and that he is willing to pay him for the work he did. :, ... : - . |